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The Dogon people fight endemic disease
World health • Geneva, Switzerland • Published In 1985 • Pages: 28-29
By: Kassambara, Mabo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief article reports on public health efforts to control onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis, guinea worm, and malaria in the Dogon plateau in the Republic of Mali. The document discusses the vectors and incidence of these diseases and the nature and success of the efforts to control and eradicate them. The article also reports on the impact of these diseases on the Dogon and the Dogon attitudes toward and participation in the public health efforts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Public health and sanitation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Dogon
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Technical Personnel
- Entomologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mopti Region, Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Mabo Kassambara
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81006025
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dogons (African people)